Sunday Scholar Series
September 7, 2008
4:15 - 5:15 pm (time approximate after performance)

• A free one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play

You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive at the theater by 4:15 pm and enter the theater after the performance ends.

The Sunday Scholars panel on September 7 will be guest-moderated by Danny Postel, a journalist and activist living in Chicago. He is the author of Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran: Iran and the Future of Liberalism and is a member of the editorial board of The Common Review, the quarterly magazine of the Great Books Foundation. A contributor to such publications such as The Nation, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The American Prospect and the New Humanist, he has taught journalism at Columbia College Chicago and is a member of the No War on Iran Coalition.

The discussion will feature panelists:

Michael J. Kramer
Kramer is a lecturer in History and American Studies at Northwestern University, where he teaches courses on the Sixties, American culture, and civil society in the United States, among others. He is the author of numerous book and exhibition reviews and was co-organizer of the symposium "1968-2008: The Aesthetics of Engagement." He is currently working on the book The Republic of Rock: Music and the Making of the Counterculture, 1965-1975 and is the author of the Culture Rover Blog.

William Kreml
Kreml is a graduate of Northwestern University and Northwestern University Law School, and received a Ph.D. in political science. He was the principal drafter of the charter of the National Democratic Party, the first constitution of a major political party in American history. His senatorial campaign in the South Carolina Democratic primary in 1980 led to the formation of the Committee on the Constitutional System, which engaged in the most extensive citizen-based examination of the need for constitutional reform in the nation's history. He has written nine books on political theory and American government and will begin teaching at DePaul University's political science department in January.

Tom McBride
McBride is professor of English and humanities at Beloit College in Wisconsin and is co-editor of Beloit's famous annual Mindset List. His writing has appeared in Open Democracy, Philosophy and Literature, The Common Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications, and he has been a commentator on Wisconsin Public Radio. Click here to read his essay "The United States of Vidal."

Michael Mezey
Mezey is Professor of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago and former Dean of DePaul's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He teaches courses on the American Presidency and the United States Congress and is the author of the books Congress, the President, and Public Policy and Representative Democracy: Legislators and their Constituents.